Hi Guys,
We’re a group in Fullstack Academy looking to use redwoodjs for our capstone project.
Our primary roadblock is identity. We are comfortable using passport.js – however we are looking for a more natural JAM solution, any suggestions?
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We’re planning on built-in support for Netlify Identity and Auth0 soon, but you can use anything for now as long as you don’t mind doing it the long way. 
We’ve added Netlify Identity to the example-blog with the Netlify Identity Widget and you can see it’s not too much work. It requires a deploy to Netlify, however.
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@arjunv27 just wanted to add how excited we are you chose RedwoodJS for the project! 
Please keep us posted and don’t hesitate to ask us questions as you go. And definitely post your project to the “Show & Tell” when it’s ready – we’d love to see it!
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@rob I dug through the source code for example-blog and couldn’t find any code on the backend (in api) that was securing the API requests based on whether the user was an admin or not. Am I missing something or is that RBAC functionality something that is yet to be implemented? Thank you!
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Shhhh you found our secret! 
RBAC wasn’t ready in time for launch so there’s no server-side authentication happening. We’ve got a proposal for auth that we’re working on now and when that’s integrated into Redwood I’ll be sure to update example-blog to work with it.
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Fantastic! I am planning on porting my existing React/AWS/Auth0 app over to RedwoodJS, so I’ll be looking forward to this work shaking out so that I can use it as a template. Cheers!
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